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Today when the dwarf planet Ceres is furthest from Earth, it is 564 million km away. 233 days from now, it will be at its closest average distance of 264 million km away. Using this information, formulate a sinusoidal function that models Ceres's distance from Earth.

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currently 464,833,060 kilometers, equivalent to 3.107217 Astronomical Units. Light takes 25 minutes

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